Component comparison
RTX A500 vs GeForce 940M
RTX A500 vs GeForce 940M — detailed GPU comparison: performance, gaming FPS, specifications.
Advantages
A
RTX A500
- + Release year (+6)
- + VRAM (GB) (+2 GB)
- + Memory clock (MHz) (+850 MHz)
- + Bandwidth (GB/s) (+98 GB/s)
- + Lithography (nm) (-20 nm)
- + Boost clock (MHz) (+439 MHz)
- + CUDA cores (+1664)
- + TMUs (+40)
- + ROPs (+24)
- + FP32 performance (TFLOPS) (+6.35 TFLOPS)
- + Energy efficiency (+13.9)
- + PassMark (overall) (+5405)
- + Normalized score (+9.6)
B
GeForce 940M
- + TGP / TDP (W) (+15 W)
Detailed spec comparison
| Spec |
Component A
RTX A500
|
Component B
GeForce 940M
|
|---|---|---|
| Release year | 2021 (+6) | 2015 |
| VRAM (GB) | 4 GB (+2 GB) | 2 GB |
| Memory type | GDDR6 | DDR3 |
| Memory clock (MHz) | 1750 MHz (+850 MHz) | 900 MHz |
| Bandwidth (GB/s) | 112 GB/s (+98 GB/s) | 14 GB/s |
| Memory bus (bit) | 64 bit | 64 bit |
| TGP / TDP (W) | 60 W | 75 W (+15 W) |
| Lithography (nm) | 8 nm (-20 nm) | 28 nm |
| Transistors (M) | — | 1,870M |
| Die size (mm²) | — | 148 mm² |
| Base clock (MHz) | — | 1020 MHz |
| Boost clock (MHz) | 1537 MHz (+439 MHz) | 1098 MHz |
| CUDA cores | 2,048 (+1664) | 384 |
| TMUs | 64 (+40) | 24 |
| ROPs | 32 (+24) | 8 |
| RT cores | 16 | — |
| Tensor cores | 64 | — |
| FP32 performance (TFLOPS) | 7.25 TFLOPS (+6.35 TFLOPS) | 0.90 TFLOPS |
| Pixel fill rate (GPixel/s) | — | 17.57 GPixel/s |
| Texture fill rate (GTexel/s) | — | 35.14 GTexel/s |
| Energy efficiency | 20.2 (+13.9) | 6.4 |
| PassMark (overall) | 6,538 (+5405) | 1,133 |
| 3DMark Time Spy | — | — |
| 3DMark Fire Strike | — | 1,622 |
| Geekbench OpenCL | — | 6,025 |
| Geekbench Vulkan | — | 4,549 |
| Normalized score | 15.8 (+9.6) | 6.2 |
Only in component A
DLSS
ReBAR
In both
CUDA
FPS in games (1080p)
| Game | RTX A500 | GeForce 940M | Delta |
|---|---|---|---|
| CS:GO | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| GTA V | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
| Overwatch | 240 FPS | 240 FPS | ≈ |
| PUBG | 140 FPS | 140 FPS | ≈ |
Specs from public sources (PassMark, Geekbench). FPS measured at 1080p medium settings.
Based on the comparison:
RTX A500 wins 13 of the comparable criteria.
The choice depends on your use case.
🤔 How to choose
Universal advice for any use case.
- Reliability vs price: reliability (median 50) ↔ price (median 385.1).
- Weight vs CPU: mobility (median 48) ↔ overall performance (median 49.8).
- Upgradeability vs battery: upgradability (median 50) ↔ battery life (median 2.8).